Windows Authentication

[samwise]

We need to check some internal applications that use windows authentication. How can we make this work?

[bill.unger]

What is an example? What are you wanting to check?

[samwise]

We need to check that the website is up and operational. It would be a .net framework 1 or 2 application running on IIS6. An example would be our intranet homepage, which anoymous users cannot connect to.

Zabbix is running on a linux machine.

[samwise]

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[swaterhouse]

The only way I can think of doing this is to change the user the Zabbix client services runs under to a domain user that is allowed to access those sites and write a script that the agent can run to do the checks.

Alternatively you could write a web page that runs on a windows box that allows anonymous access (or login via post or url params) and does the checks for you. To do that you need to change the anonymous user account for that check site to a valid domain user that can access the sites needed.

[samwise]

The only way I can think of doing this is to change the user the Zabbix client services runs under to a domain user that is allowed to access those sites and write a script that the agent can run to do the checks.

Alternatively you could write a web page that runs on a windows box that allows anonymous access (or login via post or url params) and does the checks for you. To do that you need to change the anonymous user account for that check site to a valid domain user that can access the sites needed.

Let me mention that zabbix is running on linux. Anyone know how to set up an account on a linux machine to authenticate to NTLM? I was looking at samba (we can't use keberos here), but it seems like it is meant for a linux server to act as a server. I would imagine this is possible though.

Your anonymous idea would be valid for a few systems, but we really want to get into the applications an test some functionality.

write a script that the agent can run to do the checks.

FYI we have played with the new application monitoring in zabbix - that's what we are planning on using.

Thanks alot!
Sam